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Goddess Gayatri is my Ishta Devata. I chant Gayatri mantra regularly for a bright future for my family. Till now I believed that Mother Gayatri bestows wisdom, prosperity and strength on her sadhaka so that he can live a happy meaningful life. I used to meditatešŸ§˜ā€ā™‚ļø like this during Gayatri Japa which was as advised by my parents & guru.Ā …

You can deal with this dilemma in two different ways. First is that though each god or goddess has a certain limited function, the overriding

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My partner is not willing to accept my connection with the Ashram, the Mother, and Sri Aurobindo. He is opposed to the idea and keeps telling me not to follow such things. He questions how I came across all this, suggesting it happened only because I was alone. He believes that if I had the right people around me, I wouldn’t feel the need for such a path. According to him, I’m drawn to it only because I’m depressed and not surrounded by the right kind of people. I told him that I genuinely like going there, but he still doesn’t understand or accept it😠.

Obviously he is limited by his own conceptions and, like most people, shut in the bubble of his own understanding. May be you should not

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I feel a bit of pressure or something in the center of my chestšŸ’“. What is this? When I reciting mother’s name or reading mother’s book or listening her music I feel the pressure is going very strong and my total body remain silent and vacant. I feel this pressure in my whole work, that gives me peace, beauty and harmony still I have mistake in my action. What is the pressure? Is it right thing? Can you elaborate this?

It is a beautiful thing that is happening, a true experience. This pressure is the pressure of your psychic being wanting to emerge and express

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Is meditation upon death every single moment a good method to cultivate attention and awareness? I’ve come across this young 23 year old Italian man who killed himself and wrote a philosophical work in the 19th century, it’s basically upon how men live as if they are sedated and don’t face their mortality with seriousness and urgency and this German philosopher Heidegger says modern technology only ramps up this anesthestic state of living, Seneca the wise stoic wrote a work advising to live everyday as if it’s the last and depicting examples of slumberous life of many in Rome 🫤 [conti]

Meditation upon death is advised by certain mystics including the Buddhist path. Basically it is a meditation on the transience of life, on the impermanence

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I’ve met quite many people who seem to be interesting, provoke my mental curiosity, vital attraction, but I rarely get to meet someone who has a similar spiritual aspiration. And in such cases, there may be very little vital or physical attraction at all. Is it a mistake to get involved with someone who doesn’t share your spiritual path, even if there is an affinity at all the other levels? Also, what if the other person does have a path, but they are a buddhist, for example? Would that create a contradiction of spiritual currents🫤?

There are no such fixed rules in spiritual life which moves in a wide free space. Each journey is unique and different. What helps one

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Because as soon as I started reading The Garud Puran, the way it describes the hell, and how Yamadoots take souls thru the hell, I could not read anymore, because that is not the way my understanding has formed after my other readings. Yes, we have to resolve our Karmas, but the way Garud Puran describes it, I was not sure those Souls will learn anything from it, may be they will learn that what I did was wrong, and I should not do it again. But that is not resolving Karma, the wronged sides totally left out. But then again, I did not read further as I didn’t agree with it, may be it mentions the wronged side later on🤨.

Puranas are not considered as supreme authorities. They belong to the class of Scriptures called Smriti. The authentic scriptures are the Vedas, Upanishads, Gita. They

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I have a question about my father that I’ve been meaning to ask since he passed away some months back. Today, in a meditation on the psychic presence within, I saw him with his usual wide smile. I have been wondering how he is and where he is as he passed away in great pain and not sure how the passing was for him since he refused to discuss matters of the afterlife that I tried to bring up with him to prepare him. He was such a vital personality that I can’t imagine he’s no more with us. Is this a sign that he he’s now in the psychic worlds? I wanted to know how his life review was for his soul and if he was at peace with his passing as he was a real karmayogi. I’m still coming to terms with his passing in my human way.Ā I have also prayed so much for him and put him in Mother’s arms. Was she with him when he passed over? Is there any message from him to me?šŸ™

His smiling appearance while meditating upon the heart centre indicates that he is safe and happy, still inwardly connected to you through the deeper heart,

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In one way when we are aspiring the divine life manifestation upon earth an another way there are many traditional yogis, seeker who advice mankind to escape this earth. They speak it is an illusionary world which made by God. Another says it is the lila of lord but at the end you must escape this world and merging in the dety. My question is why they are not seeing the whole truth of the Divine, if they have find him? If the supramental consciousness manifested upon earth then why they are repeat this idea and give to mankind? If manifestation of divine life is the work of the divine then why he allow to repeat the game by other saints🤨?

Just as there are beings turned towards the future, who embody the future, so too there are beings whose face is turned towards the past,

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